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We're all just starting to get to grips with how COVID-19 will affect women and girls in gendered and disproportionate ways, but we know from work on crises around the world that ""Crisis always exacerbates gender inequality," as a @UN_Women says here:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51705199 …
We definitely need information on how the virus will affect pregnancy. This is a great piece on types of impact on women and girls we should look out for.https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/03/covid-19-outbreak-potential-fallout-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights …
We know women do much more unpaid care and domestic work, so school closures will hit women harder than men in terms of creating new care giving burdens that conflict with paid work. Single parent households (the vast majority of which are headed by women) will be hardest hit.
Telecommuting--for school or work--won't be gender neutral either, given that globally 327 million more men than women have smart phones. http://www.oecd.org/internet/bridging-the-digital-gender-divide.pdf …
Domestic violence often rises in a crisis. Govts need to increase awareness now about access to services for domestic violence victims and ensure that victims can access services even if they are restricted in their movements, quarantined or infected.http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005253/domestic-violence-cases-surge-during-covid-19-epidemic …
70% of workers in the health and social sector are women, but they are less likely to be in leadership roles and are paid less for the same work. They are the ones on the front line of COVID-19, and govts need to support them--for all of us. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/311314/WHO-HIS-HWF-Gender-WP1-2019.1-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y …
We also know that, like everything else, the impact of COVID-19 is intersectional. Gender is a factor in who is harmed most, as is forms of marginalization like being a worker in the sex industry.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seattle-sex-workers-covid19-coronavirus_n_5e69233ac5b60557280fbfce …
The question of what happens to people in prison--who are neglected, abused & denied health care at the best of time--during COVID-19 is absolutely terrifying. And while the majority of prisoners are men, women in prison have more health problems than men.https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200310.290180/full/ …
I'll keep posting useful info on gender on COVID-19 here. Like this:https://twitter.com/juliaheather/status/1238263742879727622?s=20 …
"Across the board, gender issues were ignored," says an expert who studied whether global health responses to previous crises considered gendered impact. Nope, she found, not in the past--and not this time either, at least so far. Time to do better. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/women-coronavirus-greater-risk.html …
This is a great clip, and most of the issues she is talking about disproportionately affect women. https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1238252684412502017?s=20 …
"Women are as much as ten times more likely than men to stay home from work with sick children, and there are five times as many single mothers as single fathers in the United States."https://time.com/5801897/women-affected-covid-19/ …
We need to be thinking about the impact of COVID on women in conflict and refugee settings. This piece doesn't mention women (?) but we know that women in these settings already face particular difficulties accessing health care and protecting themselves. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814473308/opinion-refugees-are-especially-vulnerable-to-covid-19-dont-ignore-their-needs …
More on how (majority female) front line health workers are affected:https://twitter.com/niccijsmith/status/1238376047545970688?s=20 …
Important thread on disparities in access to online learning: https://twitter.com/sunnysingh_n6/status/1239940728203214848?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ProfSunnySingh/status/1239940728203214848 …
.@hrw just issued this report which includes a section on COVID-19’s different and disproportionate impact on women and girls and what governments should do in response.https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/19/human-rights-dimensions-covid-19-response …
"A pandemic magnifies all existing inequalities (even as politicians insist this is not the time to talk about anything other than the immediate crisis)." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/ …
This piece includes lots of helpfully detailed recommendations on how governments should respond to the impact of corona virus on women:https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-gender-matters-impact-and-recovery-covid-19 …
“Increased threat to women/children was a predictable effect of lockdowns, said activists. Increased abuse is a pattern in many emergencies, whether conflict, economic crisis or disease outbreaks, though quarantine poses a particularly grave challenge.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/28/lockdowns-world-rise-domestic-violence …
All of us who have been talking forever about women's right to be full participants in peace processes (as required by UN Security Council resolution 1325) need to bring the same activism to the issue of women's role in designing COVID-19 responses. https://www2.unwomen.org/-/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/publications/2020/03/ap-wps-covid-in-asia-pacific.pdf?la=en&vs=3251 …
"It’s a painful coincidence that women are being confined to their homes just as an international movement against femicide is taking off...Are you safer outside risking coronavirus or inside with a bored, angry male partner?"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-feminism-domestic-violence/ …
This is a great thread: https://twitter.com/SaalaJeng/status/1244225040507379712?s=20 …
"In Tunisia, in the first 5 days, calls to a hotline increased fivefold. In France, the govt set up centers in grocery stores with secret passwords for victims to seek help. In Brazil, a state-run drop-in center has seen a 40 to 50 percent rise in demand."https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/01/measures-control-spread-coronavirus-are-nightmare-victims-domestic-violence-advocates-are-demanding-that-governments-step-up/ …
That’s a great model that other countries should follow, in addition to providing options for a victim to have the abuser removed from the home. https://twitter.com/npr/status/1245184121988661249?s=21 …https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1245184121988661249 …
"Avoid wearing long jewelry or any accessories that could be used to strangle you. If violence is not avoidable, find a corner, curl up like a small ball, protect your face and wrap your arms around each side of your head with fingers entwined." #Covid_19https://www.malaymail.com/news/what-you-think/2020/04/06/avoiding-domestic-violence-during-covid-19-lean-ong-and-khor-swee-kheng/1854056 …
In the US—and likely elsewhere—the people losing their jobs are more likely to be women. And they were low-paying jobs to start with, so newly laid off women have few resources to fall back on.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/women-coronavirus-lost-jobs_n_5e90a363c5b685fbc7d4a557 …
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